Children's Illustrated

Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Joan Sandin. Cover and dust jacket have light edgewear. Ex-library with minor markings and stamping.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous. Book club edition as per dust jacket and spine, but copyright page shows "A." Green cloth covers with orange creche design on front and orange lettering on spine. Dust jacket back cover lightly soiled, top edges worn. Boards are slightly bowed. End papers lightly foxed, pages in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Milan, A. Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated. Color photography by Christopher G. Knight. First-hand observations, personal reflections, and full-color photographs trace a family visit to the sites described in the "Little House on the Prairie" books.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Barce & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR TO FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY/Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First American edition 8.25 x 7.75". Unpaginated [52 pages]. Essentially an artists' book created by the noted Italian futurist, Munari, widely regarded as one of the most influential book-designers of the 20th century. Illustrations feature translucent overlays and brightly colored pages with die cut edges and windows. Voted the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 1969 winner. Previous owner;s inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short, closed tears. B&W illustrations by Ronald Himler.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Orange covers, dust jacket completely illustrated in color and protected with acetate-covering, lovely full-color illustrations by the author. Very light edgewear to dust jacket, very small area of sticker residue to upper right corner of acetate dust jacket covering, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Here is a story of Salem and the frightening time of the Witch Hunts emphasizing the role of John Alden, one of the unjustly accused "witches." Beautiful b&w illustrations throughout by Charles Mikolaycak.

New York, Dial Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Ginee Seo Books/Antheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BARYSHNIKOV AND RADUNSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Glossy dust jacket and covers completely illustrated in color, beautiful full page color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. No wear to book or dust jacket; a gorgeous children's book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in rust tweed binding, lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." B&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Clean copy.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alexander Koshkin. SIGNED BY PATERSON on title-page.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Maryland, Stemmer House Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages. Color frontispiece and color illustrations throughout. Minor edgewear to cover. Chipping, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HUNECK WITH A DRAWING OF A DOG opposite the title page. Clean copy.

New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color Illustrations by Floyd Cooper. When Papa tells a story about a brave soldier with a secret message, Chita happily joins in the telling, enjoying the time with her father in a celebration of family and the tradition of the tall tale.

Hardcover. New York, M A Donahue & Company , reprint , 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Light edge wear to top right corner of front cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Book Club Ed., 1965, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Early Weekly Reader Edition, 32 pages illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages, B&W illustrations by Kathi Bhend.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with moderate wear to oictorial boards. Ex-Library copy with usual stamps on front fly leaf, interior page, and sleeve on rear end paper. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in brown with a prancing colt on the cover. Picture book story of the colt Chip and all the mischief he causes just because he wants a friend and partner to swish at flies like the big horses. Illustrated in color and b&w by Diana Thorne. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clea, Binding is a tad loose, light shelfwear.

New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mary Wormell. Peter the spotted pig tries everything he can think of to remove his spots, from fading them in the summer sun to freezing them off in the winter snow, until he makes a new friend who helps him realize that his spotty look is something of which he can be proud. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two-color illustrations by Laura Barrett. Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard and so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids deep in the woods. With her trademark subversive and comic eye, Jeanette Winterson retells the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.

Hardcover. Joliet, Volland, 1st , 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gruelle. Cloth spine separation from binding. Binding shaken, pages loose, but clean, bright cover & pages. Chipping to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert's Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins. Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what's a town to do? Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nelson. Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Big, dynamic pop-ups bring to life such legendary prehistoric creatures as the saber-toothed tiger and the woolly mammoth, as well as a number of lesser-known beasts. Each of the seven bold and dramatic spreads includes clear and informative descriptions of each animal. Paper engineering by Ruth Mawdsley. Clean working copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1st, 2014-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A wordless picture book celebrates the power of art and imagination. A little boy reads about Africa and then creates his own adventures with his pencils and paints. Wordless books require readers to slow down and read the pictures, and careful children will see beyond the main storyline by looking at the whole illustration. Why is the boy in bed and not outside? The inhaler and bottle of medicine on the side table are hints. But binoculars and an umbrella on the other side of the table tell them that he is not always bedridden. As he draws, he falls deeply into the rich world of his imaginary Africa. First he draws an elephant, and then he rides away on it. He paints zebras, has a sandwich for lunch, records a giraffe stampede and shares one of his many other sandwiches with the gorillas. After a hair-raising encounter with an aggressive rhino, the little artist shares his pencils and food with other primates, who return the favor and sketch him. Colon's signature scratched-watercolor technique adds richness and emotion to this warm story, but it's the framing scenes at beginning and end that really sparkle here. Simple line-and-color washes put the young man at the center of the story and help readers identify with him.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with maroon cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Harry Daugherty, Part of the Children of the Americas Series. Kimba, an Ecuadorian boy, wanted a pet of his own. He wanted to be a mighty hunter, too. It wasn't until danger threatened his village that he was able to realize one of those ambitions. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2014-04-29, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. How do we stay put on our planet and not float away into outer space? What makes things fall to the ground from high places? Chin introduces youngsters to the concept of gravity, presenting the information in highly understandable language and in captivating paintings that will delight young readers. Deceptively simple large print text describe how gravity affects all things on Earth as well as in outer space. Colorful and incredibly detailed watercolor landscapes and close-up illustrations keep readers' attention, and certain objects are repeated throughout the pages. Although Gravity is set up like a fictional text, the information necessary to understand the basics of gravity are present.

Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial beige cloth. Color lithograph frontis of Santa peeking at sleeping toddler. Approx. 150 pages with b&w line illustrations. Each page with a red decorative border. Front fly leaf present but loose, pencil name and date (1905) on a blank prelim page. Otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED WItH A SKETCH BY DESIMINI. Delia and Ophelia are witches. They're cooking up a particularly naughty spell for Halloween, and the main ingredient is super-stinky socks. That night, when the neighborhood children go trick-or-treating, the only words they can say are "Smell my feet!" Of course, no one gives them any candy, much to the delight of the two witches. The fun comes to an end when a mysterious ingredient causes the potion to backfire--returning the children to normal, and putting the witches in a very strange situation!

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. A visual tribute to what the wind takes away illustrated in color by Ati Forberg. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by illustrator Lane Smith. Bestselling Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith and legendary author Florence Parry Heide have teamed up to create an unforgettable princess sure to charm and delight young readers. Princess Hyacinth has a problem: she floats. And so the king and queen have pebbles sewn into the tops of her socks, and force her to wear a crown encrusted with the heaviest jewels in the kingdom to keep her earthbound. But one day, Hyacinth comes across a balloon man and decides to take off all her princess clothes, grab a balloon, and float free. Hooray! Alas, when the balloon man lets go of the string . . . off she goes. Luckily, there is a kite and a boy named Boy to save her.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Lionni. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food . . . except for Frederick. But when the days grow short and the snow begins to fall, it's Frederick's stories that warm the hearts and spirits of his fellow field mice. Winner of a 1967 Caldecott Honor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on copyright page by Lewin. A look at Brazil's Pantanal marsh describes the various types of creatures who inhabit it, from the South American caiman, to the world's largest rodent, to storks, egrets, and herons.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with light blue lettering. 72 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Oscar Fabres who also decorated the endpapers. Spine cloth faded, interior clean.

Hardcover. New York , NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While Tia Isa wants to save money for a car that will take the whole family to the beach, her niece does odd jobs for neighbors. But it's hard to save enough when half the money is set aside to someday bring family members who live far away to join them. Meg Medina's simple, genuine story about keeping in mind those who are far away is written in lovely, lyrical prose and brought to life through Claudio Munoz's charming characters.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too--and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really did cross the road. Mo Willems's chicken confesses his motives to a police officer; David Shannon's chicken can drive a car; Marla Frazee's chicken is looking for a more luxurious coop; and Harry Bliss's chicken encounters aliens. And this is just the beginning. One thing is for sure--you won't cross this book without a good laugh!

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with half the spine missing, Blue cloth with silver and black eagle on cover and silver and black lettering. Black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Charles Child. Biographical rhyming verse: Columbus to Woodrow Wilson, some generic categories. Name on page opposite half-title, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and SIGNED BY BOTH DILLONS. In a time long past, in a land far away, a family has suffered an unspeakable loss. But a lonely goblin has been watching. And he knows what to do to help them heal. From internationally acclaimed picture book masters Mem Fox and Leo and Diane Dillon, here is a rich and moving original fairy tale about family, friendship, and the power compassion has to unite us all.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust with light wear and a small closed tear, color illustrations by Deborah Zemke. Best friends Becky and Molly get into a ferocious fight when Becky refuses to trade dolls with Molly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Yaccarino. All week long, a boy and his father look forward to their Friday ritual-breakfast at their favorite diner. The leisurely walk through the neighborhood is just as good as the pancakes at the end.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illustrated with Dare Wright's b&w photos featuring a doll with her teddy bears and a live duckling. No dust jacket, Clean and bright, no markings.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by David Shannon. SIGNED BY SCIESZKA. From the minds of Scieszka and Shannon comes a tale of a quixotic robot determined to conquer the earth. The only problem is that the earth he lands on is a suburban kitchen and he is three inches tall. Robot Zot, the fearless and unstoppable warrior, leaves a trail of destruction as he encounters blenders, toasters, and televisions. But when he discovers the princess...a pink cell phone...his mission takes a new course. Robot Zot must learn how to be a hero - in the name of true love.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Beth Wilson. Small picture book with no dust jacket. Tell-a-Tales Series. Light corner and edge rubs, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Children's Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Vladimir Radunsky . SIGNED BY RADUNSKY. In this soothing rhyme we explore the sleeping habits of some favorite inhabitants of the world of fairy tales and find fairies, wizards, goblins, and even children all find peace under the same bright moon.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Helen Shad. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. Cloth covers with stamped black decoration and lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.